From a secret hot Invisible Man to monstrous adult jokes, Hotel Transylvania 4 is packed
with hilarious¬ references and easter eggs you might have missed.
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan, and in this video I'm revealing 27 deliciously
dark details and hidden gags the filmmakers snuck into the movie.
Some spoilers ahead, of course, so take care.
The movie begins with the hotel's 125th Anniversary party and a spectacular array of monster performances
organised by Johnny, including the Werewolf Kids running out on stage with a set of cards
that spell out "Happy Anniversary".
But in their mad rush, the pups trip and tumble over each other and as they get up their cards
now read: Very phine a…
Ooh, oh no!
The scene quickly moves on, but although it looks like the name Phineas, there's a crucial
gap so that P, H, I, N and E is pronounced "fine" and that last S card was going to complete
the end of another word.
You can see the joke in full for just the tiniest fraction of a second later when Drac
freezes the chaos at the party before he quickly rearranges the letters to read "Happy Anniversary".
There are some devilishly dark and gruesome little details you might have easily overlooked
at the party dinner tables.
There's the centrepiece which is not only made up of flowers, but also tentacles and
eyeballs.
Instead of ordinary forks and knives, the guests have mini axes and prongs to eat with,
and then there's the salt and pepper pots whose design appears to be inspired by the
infamous iron maiden torture devices given the little spikes on top and the anguished
faces.
When Van Helsing takes Johnny down into his lab to show him the Monster-fication Ray,
you can spot a ton of weird and wonderful objects from the former villain's monster-hunting
days, including a huge dinosaur skeleton, a mysterious
humanoid skeleton with horns, a giant robot outfit, and an old diving suit he might have
used to discover the ancient underwater civilization of Atlantis.
And hanging from the ceiling is a replica of the aeroplane he used when hunting Drac
in Hotel Transylvania 3.
Also, there appears to be the body of a giant shark, which could be what happened to Sharkie,
one of the monster pets Drac introduced to Tinkles in the short film Monster Pets!
Sharkie!
When Van Helsing uses the Monster-fication Ray on Gigi the gerbil and then on Johnny,
right next to him is a giant circular stone with an engraving of a tentacled monster,
a secret reference to the Kraken that Van Helsing hypnotised and used to attack Drac
and the other monsters in Hotel Transylvania 3.
And just like he converted the friendly Kraken into an angry beast with the Instrument of
Destruction in that movie, in Hotel Transylvania 4 Van Helsing's contraption also slowly turns
Johnny into a raging uncontrollable monster.
And the central part of the stone with the face and surrounding wave pattern is the secret
entrance to the ruins of Atlantis from the third film.
It's probably no coincidence either that there's a portrait of one of Van Helsing's ancestors
from the third movie just outside the elevator door at the hotel looking on as Drac accidentally
turns himself into a human with the Monster-fication Ray.
Drac tries to hide his transformation from Mavis, and the other monsters help by distracting
her with Wayne's new dance moves.
The routine he tries to do is inspired by real-life social media dance challenges, in
particular the viral hit "Renegade" dance created by Jalailah Harmon.
Oh, yeah.
And speaking of social media stars, the character of Party Monster is played by streamer "Ninja",
aka Tyler Blevins.
Oh yeah.
When Griffin becomes human, the Drac Pack is shocked to learn that he's been naked from
the moment we first met him, a little hat-tip to the fans of the franchise who guessed this
early on: Have you seriously been naked this whole time?
Uh, yeah.
Why would only my glasses be visible?
Notice how he has red curly hair as he explained in the first movie.
What's wrong with red, curly hair?
Why are you getting upset?
I have red curly hair!
Now, Griffin's human form as a balding, pot-bellied, middle-aged man caused a bit of a stir among
some Hotel Transylvania fans when the movie's trailer came out.
Over 30,000 people signed a petition on behalf of "The Invisible Man Simps Community" asking
Sony Animation to make Griffin hot.
And it's possible the filmmakers give a little nod to this because they actually snuck an
alternate version of Griffin into the final movie.
To catch this, watch really carefully during the crystal cave scene because as broken reflections
of each character appear in the giant crystals, when Griffin wanders into view, in the corner
there's a design of him that's completely different including a full head of hair.
I'm inviz.
Man, just because you're invisible doesn't mean you get to be naked.
Gremlin Air makes a hilarious return for the fourth movie and there's a bit of humorous
lampshading that acknowledges how ridiculous it is that the plane can actually fly.
How is this plane even in the sky?!
Is that duct tape holding the wing together?!
After arriving in South America, Johnny and Drac take a bus to the Amazon but when Johnny's
monster size slows it down, he decides to move the vehicle along by picking it up and
running with it, a shout-out to the old school animation The
Flintstones where Fred and his friend Barney would sometimes use foot power to literally
run their car.
There's a long-running joke in the franchise that Drac supposedly goes around saying " bleh,
bleh-bleh".
Yes, fellow Dracula.
There's only one way.
Bleh, bleh-bleh.
I don't know where that comes from.
And it's true that according to Vampires.com, Dracula has never said the phrase either in
the books or the live-action movies that came before the animated movie franchise.
However, in Hotel Transylvania 4, as Drac tries to explain why he made up the monster
real estate law, he says...
Johnny found out that I was giving you guys the hotel.
But then he had a Johnny takeover:
escalators, name changes, blah, blah, blah.
Although Ericka gave up her monster-hunting ways at the end of the third movie, when she
goes in search of Drac and Johnny, she gets some of her old monster-hunting contraptions
out again.
There's her blimp which is full of lethal weapons,
Okay.
Yeah, it's a death trap. and the tank-like armoured vehicle she drives
has a license plate that reads "MNSTR HNTR".
The jeep also has a V-shaped ornament as a nod to her family name, just like the car
her great granddaddy chased Drac with.
When the gang eventually arrive at the Crystal Cave, they enter through an opening that looks
like the jaws of a monster.
And when the cave begins to collapse later on, as Frank and Eunice run from the falling
rocks they both say If he ruins my hair, I'm never gonna forgive
him!
That's a funny call-back to the third movie where Eunice was playing volleyball and was
worried about getting her hair wet.
Everybody, just please watch the hair.
Watch the hair!
And the way the gang shield Mavis from the sun's rays at the end of the movie, as she
runs to reach Johnny and turn him back into a human, is a neat parallel to how Drac was
shielded from the sun as he raced to reach Johnny at the end of the first movie.
Don't worry we got you covered.
The way the wolf pups extend in a line to provide shade for Mavis is similar to how
the townspeople formed a line to cover Drac in the original film.
And something you might not have noticed is that the voice of Drac changed for this fourth
film from Adam Sandler who played him in the first three movies to voice actor, impressionist,
and YouTuber Brian Hull.
Hull already voiced Drac in the short film Monster Pets and does an excellent job in
the new feature sounding uncannily like Sandler's Drac.
Thank you Johnny.
How wonderful.
So, what did you think of the fourth and final Hotel Transylvania movie and how it ended?
And who are your favourite characters?
Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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